Bottle-protecting device.



1 R. D. HUGHES.

BOTTLE PROTECTING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 12, 1912.

1,100,784. Patented June 23,1914.

Allorney ROBERT D. HUGHES, OF LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA.

BOTT'LEPROTECTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 23, Applicationfiled August 12, 1912. Serial No. 714,712. I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Ronnnr D. HUGHES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Iiynchburg. in the county. of Campbell and State of Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle'Protecting v Devices, of which the followingis a speci;

tudinal sectional view.

tication. My inventi n relates to a locking and pr0- tecting device or milk bottles and the like. The main object of my invention, is to provide an improved key-operated device for receiving and automatically locking milk bottles or the'like whereby the bottle will 3 be held against theft or removal by an unauthorized persou, and against the danger of the outlet or mouth of the bottle being attacked by dogs, cats or other animals, so that the bottle may be unlocked from the device by the proper person, in a sanitary condition. I

Minor objects of the invention will appear from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

In said drawings :-Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device. Fig. 2 is a longi- Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the key.

Referring to the drawings, a suitable bracket is provided of which 1 designates an attaching plate which may be attached to a wall of ahous'e, or to another suitable support as by means of screws 2 passed through openings in the plate and engaging the support. A bottle supporting plate extends at right angles to the plate 1 and is designated 3. Said plate 3 has a slot provided therein, and over said slot is secured a case or box 4 which is secured insposition by means of lugs 5, one engaging the plate 1 and the other engaging the plate 3 and the lugs being secured in position'by means of screws or rivets passing through the lugs and respective plates, as at 6. In

said box 4 is mounted to rotate, a Wheel or armed member 7 which may be fixed to or loosely mounted upon a shaft or rod 8 extending transversely of the box and supported in walls thereof. The arms of the member 7 are designated 9 and at their free end each arm is provided with a projection 10. A suitable spring finger such as 11 is securedwithin the casing, as by means of ariv et 12. passing through the spring finling 13 is provided in one'wall of the casing 14 through which an operating key 14, best shown in Fig. 4, is passed. Said armed imember is of less width than the space in- ,termr of the box 42', and the key I l-is of such. iconstruction as to provide spaced apart bits 515 to extend on opposite sides'of the armed lmember 7 so as to permit the same to be iturned' and engage the springfinger 11,'

lwhich is of such width or size as to extend ?beyond the armed member on one or both sides thereof.

The numeral 16 designates the ordinary form of milk bottle adapted to receive a disk stopper 17 of pasteboard or the like, and which disk provides above the same, as is usual, acavity or recess 18 into which the arms of the member 7 may extend, one at a time.

ger 11 and the attaching plate. An open- The bead or enlargement at the mouth of the bottle is designated 19. The

plate 3 has provided on opposite sides thereof channeled or curved walls or flanges 20 in which the bottle is adapted to he slid by means of the bead 19'and to be supported thereby.

In operation, a milk bottle is inserted into the device, as shown in Fig. 2, the bead 19 engaging the flanges 20 and the bottle being supported bysuch engagement. As the bot- .tle is slid inward, one arm of the member 7 :is engaged by the bead and moved-upwardly until it reaches the positionshown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, where one arm has passed the spring finger 11 and the spring finger is swung to position belov. the projection 10 of the arm. In this position it will be seen,

by, the dotted lines in Fig. 2, that one of the arms 9 extends into therecess 18 and prevents the bottle from being moved outwardly or disengaged from thedevice, the spring finger 11 serving to lock the Wheel againstrotation. Thus it will beseen that the bottle may be inserted into the device and be -automatically looked through the sliding tnovement of the bottle. To remove the bottle from thejilevice, the key 14 is inserted through the opening 13 and turned sothat its bits will engage under the spring finger 11 and raise the same. When such spring finger has been raised the bottle is moved outwardly and the armed member 7 being unlocked, the bottle is free to be removed.

It will thus be seen that I have rovided a novel and efficient device where y a milk moval by an unauthorized person, and that the mouth of said bottle is also protected from attack by dogs, cats or other animals so that when the bottle is removed the mouth thereof and contents will be in a sanitary condition. The preferred embodiment of my invention has been illustrated and described herein, but it is to be understood that changes in the details of construction may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the appended claims. v -Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new and. desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a device of the class described, in combination with an article, a rotatable lock member having a plurality of arms, said arms adapted to be engaged by the article during sliding movement thereof, one at atime, and said arms, one at a time, adapted to extend below the top of said article.

2. In a device of the class described, in

.combination with an article having a recess, a lock member rotatable in the path of a complete circle and'having a rigid arm movable into said recess through xengagement of the article with the member, in

.combination with means to automatically lock said member in position with its arm in the recess upon such engagement being eflected, and accordingly effecting locking of the bottle against displacement.

3. In "a device of the class described, in

combination with an article, a box, a rota- 7 table locking member operable in'said box provided with a plurality of arms adapted to positively engage said. article one at a flanges to engage said article, said locking member extending adjacent and said arms mounted intermediate saidflanges and operable through movement of said artic e. v

-4. In a device of the class described, in combination with an article, an article support member provided with a plate having article engagin flanges thereon, said plate having a slot t erein,"a box on said plate above said slot, and an armed locking member rotatably mounted in said box and extending through said slot.

5. In a device of the class described, in combination with an article, a plate member provided with article engaging flanges, said member for .the article located within said box, and a spring finger to engage said locking member secured to said attaching plate.

6; In a device of the class described, in combination with an article provided with a recess, a plate member provided with article engaging flanges, said plate member pro-v vided with a slot, a box above said slot, a rotatable article lockin member having arms to enter the recess 0 the article, each arm having a projection thereon, an attaching plate, a spring finger to lock the armed member secured to said attaching plate, in combination with an opening provided in said box, and a key insertible through said opening to engage said spring finger.

I ROBERT D. HUGHES.

' Witnesses:

J. W. IVEY, W. DALLEN.

5 vplate member provided with a slot, a bong.

over said slot, an attaching plate, a locking. 

